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@Scilly.Suffolk I think the Atlantis story originates from Santorini in the Mediterranean.
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One of many, many theories. :)
Obviously, the Mediterranean cataclysm will have lived on in folk memory for a long time, but it contradicts so many aspects of Plato's version of the Atlantis story that I don't consider this a candidate for explaining the Atlantis myth in particular. I know you propose it merely as the origin of that story, but I don't think it is even that. For starters, it's clearly not outside the Pillars of Hercules. Again, ancient sources have so many flood myths:
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Bloody hell that clip is annoying. The narration and sound effects nearly gave me a fit
Oliver Schick
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While I'm here, I didn't get around to commenting on the Doggerland-chat a couple of pages back.
I think there's a case to be made for it being the basis of the Atlantis story.
Such a sudden and catastrophic loss of these lands would doubtless have persisted in the folk-memory for many generations until Plato heard a diluted version of events.
That he dates the event to thousands of years prior to his time and occurring outside the Mediterranean, only adds weight to my argument.
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